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Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)?

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Ben Finney writes:

> Victor Hooi writes:
>
>> Many of the fields are meant to be numerical, however, some fields are
>> wrapped in a "floatApprox" dict, which messed with my parsing.
>
> The examples you give of ‘floatApprox’ are not dicts, so I'm not sure
> quite what that means.

I took the distinction to be between 123123 and {"floatApprox":
213123123}. The former looks like an int, the latter like a dict.

>>     "network": {
>>         "bytesIn": 123123,
>>         "bytesOut": {
>>             "floatApprox": 213123123
>>         }

> What do you mean by “wrapping”?

I read it so that the bytesOut value, 213123123, is "wrapped" in
{"floatApprox": }, and Victor wants just the number inside.

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Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2015-08-27 21:57 -0700
  Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2015-08-27 22:04 -0700
    Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? "Sven R. Kunze" <srkunze@mail.de> - 2015-08-28 18:09 +0200
      Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Robin Koch <robin.koch@t-online.de> - 2015-08-28 18:15 +0200
        Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? "Sven R. Kunze" <srkunze@mail.de> - 2015-08-30 13:38 +0200
        Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-08-30 22:00 +1000
        Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-30 13:55 +0100
  Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-08-28 15:44 +1000
    Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Jussi Piitulainen <harvestingn@makes.address.invalid> - 2015-08-28 09:03 +0300
    Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Jussi Piitulainen <harvesting@makes.address.invalid> - 2015-08-28 09:15 +0300
      Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2015-08-28 00:56 -0700
        Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-28 19:23 +1000
  Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Jussi Piitulainen <harvesting@makes.address.invalid> - 2015-08-28 08:46 +0300
  Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? random832@fastmail.us - 2015-08-28 01:54 -0400
  Re: Casting to a "number" (both int and float)? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-08-28 07:59 +0200

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